Preamble

The House being met at half-past Two o'clock, and Mr. SPEAKER-ELECT having taken the Chair;

Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;

The House went; and, having returned—

ELECTION OF SPEAKER

Mr. Speaker: I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve of the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker, and that I have, in your name and on your behalf, made claim by humble Petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges—particularly to the freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed on all your proceedings. All these Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by herself or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to repeat my very respectful acknowledgements and my grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.

MEMBERS SWORN

Mr. Speaker: I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
Thereupon Mr. SPEAKER first alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.

Mr. Speaker: It has proved convenient, to save confusion and to save hon. Members having to wait about in the Chamber, for the Chair to announce the order in which it proposes to call right hon. and hon. Members to take the Oath.
I propose to call first the Government Front Bench; then the Opposition Front Bench; then all Privy Councillors and former Ministers not included in those

two groups, wherever they may be seated. Thereafter, I go bench by bench—first the second bench below the Gangway on my right, and then the similar bench on my left, then the back bench below the Gangway on my right; then the similar bench on my left.
A diagram of how I propose to proceed has just been placed on the notice board in the Whips' offices and in the "No" Lobby. The seats are there given numbers, and the numbers will be on the annunciators so that hon. Members may not have to sit about for an unnecessarily long time. I know that I can count upon the honour of Members to observe the order which I have announced.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable Edward Richard George Heath, M.B.E., Bexley.

Right honourable Iain Norman Macleod, Enfield, West.

Right honourable William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, M.C., Penrith and the Border.

Right honourable Leonard Robert Carr, Mitcham.

Right honourable Michael Anthony Christobal Noble, Argyll.

Right honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Finchley.

Right honourable Peter John Mitchell Thomas, Q.C., Hendon, South.

Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, esquire, Wanstead and Woodford.

Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Q.C., Reigate.

Right honourable John Wynne William Peyton, Yeovil.

Right honourable Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Q.C., Epsom.

Right honourable Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Grantham.

Right honourable James Michael Leathes Prior, Lowestoft.

Right honourable Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Q.C., Hexham.

Sir John Benedict Eden, baronet, Bournemouth, West.

Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan, esquire, D.S.O., M.C., Howden.

Right honourable Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell, M.C., Moray and Nairn.

Frederick Vernon Corfield, esquire, South Gloucestershire.

James David Gibson-Watt, esquire, M.C., Hereford.

Right honourable Christopher John Chataway, Chichester.

Terence Langley Higgins, esquire, Worthing.

Right honourable Peter Edward Walker, M.B.E., Worcester.

Right honourable Francis Leslie Pym, M.C., Cambridgeshire.

Right honourable James Harold Wilson, O.B.E., Huyton.

Right honourable Leonard James Callaghan, Cardiff, South-East.

Right honourable Roy Harris Jenkins, Birmingham, Stechford.

Right honourable Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, Grimsby.

Right honourable Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, C.H., Fulham.

Right honourable Barbara Anne Castle, Blackburn.

Right honourable Thomas Frederick Peart, Workington.

Right honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, Bristol, South-East.

Right honourable Roy Mason, Barnsley.

Right honourable Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, C.H., Sowerby.

Right honourable Edward Watson Short, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central.

Right honourable William Ross, M.B.E., Kilmarnock.

Right honourable Thomas George Thomas, Cardiff, West.

Right honourable Cledwyn Hughes, Anglesey.

Right honourable Thomas Charles Pannell, Leeds, West.

Ernest George Perry, esquire, Battersea, South.

Joseph Harper, esquire, Pontefract.

Ernest Alan Fitch, esquire, Wigan.

Neil McBride, esquire, Swansea, East.

Right honourable Sir David Lockhart-Mure Renton, K.B.E., T.D., Q.C., Huntingdonshire.

Arthur Blenkinsop, esquire, South Shields.

Sir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, baronet, Croydon, South.

Colonel Sir James Harwood Harrison, baronet, T.D., Eye.

Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, baronet, C.B.E., Bute and North Ayrshire.

Harold James Boyden, esquire, Bishop Auckland.

Sir John Charles Rodgers, baronet, Sevenoaks.

Dick Taverne, esquire, Q.C., Lincoln.

Joan Lestor, Eton and Slough.

Sir Robert Archibald Cary, baronet, Manchester, Withington.

Julian Errington Ridsdale, esquire, Harwich.

John McCann, esquire, C.B.E., Rochdale. Right honourable Joseph Grimond, T.D., Orkney and Zetland.

Ifor Davies, esquire, Gower.

Harry Neil Marten, esquire, Banbury.

Right honourable Norman Harold Lever, Manchester, Cheetham.

Bernard Richard Braine, esquire, South-East Essex.

John Dennis Concannon, esquire, Mansfield.

Raymond Llewellyn Mawby, esquire, Totnes.

Right honourable William Francis Deedes, M.C., Ashford.

James Hamilton, esquire, Bothwell.

Right honourable James Edward Ramsden, Harrogate.

Alan Green, esquire, Preston, South.

John Dudley Robert Tarleton Tilney, esquire, T.D., Liverpool, Wavertree.

Daniel Jones, esquire, B.E.M., Burnley.

John Rankin, esquire, Glasgow, Govan.

Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, esquire, Q.C., Wimbledon.

Willfred Harold Kerton Baker, esquire, T.D., Banff.

James Hector Northey Gray, esquire, Ross and Cromarty.

Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Campbell Mitchell, West Aberdeenshire.

Norman Alexander Miscampbell, esquire, Blackpool, North.

Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, esquire, Blackpool, South.

James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins, esquire, West Derbyshire.

Peter McLay Mills, esquire, Torrington.

Idris Wyn Owen, esquire, Stockport, North.

Mary Elaine Kellett, Lancaster.

Dame Joan Helen Vickers, D.B.E., Plymouth, Devonport.

David Pelham James, esquire, North Dorset.

John Heydon Romaine Stokes, esquire, Oldbury and Halesowen.

Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford, esquire, The Wrekin.

John Julius Wells, esquire, Maidstone.

Michael Fidler, esquire, Bury and Radcliffe.

Bruce Millan, esquire, Glasgow, Craigton.

Thomas William Urwin, esquire, Houghton-le-Spring.

Robert Edwards, esquire, Bilston.

Albert Roberts, esquire, Normanton.

James Johnson, esquire, Kingston-upon-Hull, West.

Right honourable Peter David Shore, Stepney.

Right honourable Denis Winston Healey, M.B.E., Leeds, East.

Right honourable Frederick Thomas Willey, Sunderland, North.

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, esquire, Birmingham, Sparkbrook.

Right honourable Sir Arthur James Irvine, Q.C., Liverpool, Edge Hill.

Right honourable Harold Julian Amery, Brighton, Pavilion.

Humphrey Edward Atkins, esquire, Spelthorne.

Nicholas Ridley, esquire, commonly called the honourable Nicholas Ridley, Cirencester and Tewkesbury.

Robert William Elliott, esquire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North.

David Ernest Campbell Price, esquire, Eastleigh.

David Arthur Russell Howell, esquire, Guildford.

Right honourable Norman Russell Wylie, Q.C., Edinburgh, Pentlands.

Hector Seymour Peter Monro, esquire, Dumfries.

Mark Carlisle, esquire, Runcorn.

William Radcliffe van Straubenzee, esquire, M.B.E., Wokingham.

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, esquire, Tavistock.

George Kenneth Hotson Younger, esquire, commonly called the honourable George Kenneth Hotson Younger, T.D., Ayr.

Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith, esquire, North Angus and Mearns.

Reginald Edwin Eyre, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green.

Jasper More, esquire, Ludlow.

Walter Clegg, esquire, North Fylde.

Bruce Bernard Weatherill, esquire, Croydon, North-East.

John Anthony Grant, esquire, Harrow, Central.

Timothy Peter Geoffrey Kitson, esquire, Richmond, Yorks.

Paul Lancelot Hawkins, esquire, T.D., South-West Norfolk.

John Anthony Kershaw, esquire, M.C., Stroud.

Rodney Graham Page, esquire, M.B.E., Crosby.

Joan Christabel Jill Knight, M.B.E., Birmingham, Edgbaston.

Victor Henry Goodhew, esquire, St. Albans.

Trevor Victor Norman Fortescue, esquire, Liverpool, Garston.

Right honourable George Darling, Sheffield, Hillsborough.

Brian Kevin O'Malley, esquire, Rotherham.

Right honourable Edmund Emanuel Dell, Birkenhead.

Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams, Hitchin.

Jesse Dickson Mabon, esquire, Greenock.

Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay, esquire, Kirkcaldy Burghs.

Right honourable John Ernest Silkin, Deptford.

Right honourable George Morgan Thomson, Dundee, East.

Eric Graham Varley, esquire, Chesterfield.

Alan John Williams, esquire, Swansea, West.

Merlyn Rees, esquire, Leeds, South.

Maurice Anthony Foley, esquire, West Bromwich.

Ivor Seward Richard, esquire, Barons Court.

Norman Pentland, esquire, Chester-le-Street.

Reginald Freeson, esquire, Willesden, East.

Right honourable John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, C.H., C.B.E., T.D., Q.C., Wirral.

Right honourable Geoffrey William Lloyd, Sutton Coldfield.

Right honourable George Russell Strauss, Lambeth, Vauxhall.

Right honourable Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Battersea, North.

Right honourable Arthur George Bottomley, O.B.E., Middlesbrough, East.

Right honourable John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Kingston-upon-Thames.

Right honourable Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, C.H., Leyton.

Right honourable Dame Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith, D.B.E., Chislehurst.

Robert Crofton Brown, esquire, New-castle-upon-Tyne, West.

David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, esquire, Plymouth, Sutton.

Right honourable Robert Hugh Turton, M.C., Thirsk and Malton.

Walter Hamlet Johnson, esquire, Derby, South.

Thomas Oswald, esquire, Q.C., Edinburgh, Central.

Ronald King Murray, esquire, Edinburgh, Leith.

James White, esquire, Glasgow, Pollok.

Michael English, esquire, Nottingham, West.

Greville Ewan Janner, esquire, Leicester, North-West.

William Charles Whitlock, esquire, Nottingham, North.

Thomas William Torney, esquire, Bradford, South.

David Weitzman, esquire, Q.C., Stoke Newington and Hackney, North.

Stanley Clinton Davis, esquire, Hackney, Central.

Ronald William Brown, esquire, Shore-ditch and Finsbury.

Sir Myer Galpern, Glasgow, Shettleston.

David Ginsburg, esquire, Dewsbury.

William Winter Hamilton, esquire, West Fife.

Renée Short, Wolverhampton, North-East.

Maurice Orbach, esquire, Stockport, South.

John Robertson, esquire, Paisley.

Alfred Thomas Evans, esquire, Caerphilly.

Robert Parry, esquire, Liverpool, Exchange.

Thomas Michael Cox, equire, Wands-worth, Central.

Dame Irene Mary Bewick Ward, D.B.E., Tynemouth.

William Percival Grieve, esquire, Q.C., Solihull.

Kenneth Robin Warren, esquire, Hastings.

Toby Francis Henry Jessel, esquire, Twickenham.

Frank Henry Taylor, esquire, Manchester, Moss Side.

Gilbert James Morley Longden, esquire, M.B.E., South-West Hertfordshire.

Geoffrey Finsberg, esquire, Hampstead.

David Bower Mitchell, esquire, Basingstoke.

Adam Courtauld Butler, esquire, commonly called the honourable Adam Courtauld Butler, Bosworth.

Peter John Edward Trew, esquire, Dartford.

William Richard Benyon, esquire, Buckingham.

David Carol Macdonell Mather, esquire, M.C., Esher.

Roger Nicholas Edwards, esquire, Pembroke.

Major-General James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, C.B., O.B.E., M.C., Lichfield and Tamworth.

Constance Mary Monks, Chorley.

William Francis Martin Maddan, esquire, Hove.

Ralph Frederick Howell, esquire, North Norfolk.

John Charles Jennings, esquire, Burton.

Kenneth Lewis, esquire, Rutland and Stamford.

Roger Denis Moate, esquire, Faversham.

Tom Normanton, esquire, Cheadle.

Ronald William Thomas Bray, esquire, Rossendale.

John William Frederic Nott, esquire, St. Ives.

Norman Beresford Tebbit, esquire, Epping.

Patrick Thomas Cormack, esquire, Cannock.

Derek Michael Coombs, esquire, Birmingham, Yardley.

Stanley James Allen Hill, esquire, Southampton, Test.

James Wellbeloved, esquire, Erith and Crayford.

John Donkin Dormand, esquire, Easington.

Hugh McCartney, esquire, East Dunbartonshire.

Gwilym Elfed Davies, esquire, Rhondda, East.

Michael Francis Lovell Cocks, esquire, Bristol, South.

John Francis Hodgess Roper, esquire, Farnworth.

Tom Pendry, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde.

Arthur Reginald Probert, esquire, Aberdare.

Raymond John Carter, esquire, Birmingham, Northfield.

David Leonard Stoddart, esquire, Swindon.

John Smith, esquire, North Lanarkshire.

Gavin Steel Strang, esquire, Edinburgh, East.

William John Molloy, esquire, Ealing, North.

Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill, commonly called the honourable Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill, Halifax.

Edward Lancelot Mallalieu, esquire, Q.C., Brigg.

Alexander Wilson, esquire, Hamilton.

Donald Richard Coleman, esquire, Neath.

Doris Mary Gertrude Fisher, Birmingham, Ladywood.

Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann, esquire, Kensington, North.

Leslie John Huckfield, esquire, Nuneaton.

James Alexander Lamond, esquire, Oldham, East.

Roland Dunstan Moyle, esquire, Lewisham, North.

Alexander Ward Lyon, esquire, York.

George Cunningham, esquire, Islington, South-West.

Michael Joseph O'Halloran, esquire, Islington, North.

Trevor Alec Jones, esquire, Rhondda, West.

Albert William Stallard, esquire, St. Pancras, North.

Brynmor Thomas John, esquire, Pontypridd.

Robert Thomas Ellis, esquire, Wrexham.

Stephen Barry Jones, esquire, East Flint.

Joseph Kevin McNamara, esquire, Kingston upon Hull, North.

John Leslie Prescott, esquire, Kingston upon Hull, East.

David George Clark, esquire, Colne Valley.

Jeffery Thomas, esquire, Abertillery.

William Hamling, esquire, Woolwich, West.

John Hall, esquire, O.B.E., T.D., Wycombe.

Michael James Hugh Alison, esquire, Barkston Ash.

Robert Spencer Redmond, esquire, Bolton, West.

Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarra, South Worcestershire.

John Stuart Forrester, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, North.

Ivor Robert Stanbrook, esquire, Orpington.

Thomas Jeremy King, esquire, Bridgwater.

Charles Fitzmaurice Creighton Simeons, esquire, Luton.

Thomas McLellan McMillan, esquire, Glasgow, Central.

Sydney James Bidwell, esquire, Southall.

Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, esquire, Huddersfield, East.

Raphael Herman Tuck, esquire, Watford.

Simon Mahon, esquire, Bootle.

Walter Harold Alldritt, esquire, Liverpool, Scotland.

Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, esquire, Barking.

William Baxter, esquire, West Stirlingshire.

John Golding, esquire, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

John Douglas Grant, esquire, Islington, East.

Alan Glyn, esquire, Windsor.

Henry Oscar Murton, esquire, O.B.E., T.D., Poole.

Ralph Bonner Pink, esquire, C.B.E., Portsmouth, South.

James Cyril George Dance, esquire, Bromsgrove.

Anthony George Berry, esquire, commonly called the honourable Anthony George Berry, Southgate.

William Geraint Oliver Morgan, esquire, Denbigh.

Michael Norman Shaw, esquire, Scarborough and Whitby.

Herbert Raymond Gower, esquire, Barry.

Sir Edward Joseph Brown, M.B.E., Bath.

Frederick Frank Arthur Burden, esquire, Gillingham.

Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, K.B.E., Isle of Ely.

Sir Arthur Vere Harvey, C.B.E., Macclesfield.

Alan David Walder, esquire, Clitheroe.

John Leonard Hunt, esquire, Bromley.

Robert John Maxwell-Hyslop, esquire, Tiverton.

Sir Clive Bossom, baronet, commonly called the honourable Sir Clive Bossom, baronet, Leominster.

Philip Antony Fyson Buck, esquire, Colchester.

Joseph Ronald Kinsey, esquire, Birmingham, Perry Bar.

Richard Crawshaw, esquire, O.B.E., Liverpool, Toxteth.

Maurice Solomon Miller, esquire, Glasgow, Kelvingrove.

Richard Giles Douglas, esquire, Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire.

William Watson Small, esquire, Glasgow, Scotstoun.

Edward Lyons, esquire, Bradford, East.

Neil Gordon Kinnock, esquire, Bedwellty.

Albert Edward Booth, esquire, Barrow-in-Furness.

Peter Kingsley Archer, esquire, Rowley Regis and Tipton.

Samuel Charles Silkin, esquire, Q.C., commonly called the honourable Samuel Charles Silkin, Q.C., Camberwell, Dulwich.

John William Gilbert, esquire, Dudley.

Frank Ashcroft Judd, esquire, Portsmouth, West.

Edward Lucas Gardner, esquire, Q.C., South Fylde.

Hugh James Delargy, esquire, Thurrock.

William Thomas Wells, esquire, Q.C., Walsall, North.

Phillip Whitehead, esquire, Derby, North.

Leslie Spriggs, esquire, St. Helens.

Ronald Howard Lewis, esquire, Carlisle.

John Jakob Mendelson, esquire, Penistone.

Stanley Orme, esquire, Salford, West.

James Sillars, esquire, South Ayrshire.

Hugh Gater Jenkins, esquire, Wands-worth, Putney.

Peter Muir Doig, esquire, Dundee, West.

Alexander Eadie, esquire, Midlothian.

David John Watkins, esquire, Consett.

Alfred Morris, esquire, Manchester, Wythenshawe.

John Ashley, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, South.

Stanley Cohen, esquire, Leeds, South-East.

Ieuan Win Pritchard Roberts, esquire, Conway.

Peter Norman Fowler, esquire, Nottingham, South.

Philip Welsby Holland, esquire, Carlton.

Robert Bowen Cant, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, Central.

Andrew Matthew William Faulds, esquire, Smethwick.

Leopold Abse, esquire, Pontypool.

Gwynoro Glyndwr Jones, esquire, Carmarthen.

Sir Stephen James McAdden, C.B.E., Southend, East.

Hugh John Dykes, esquire, Harrow, East.

William David Mudd, esquire, Falmouth and Camborne.

Christopher Montague Woodhouse, esquire, commonly called the honourable Christopher Montague Woodhouse, D.S.O., O.B.E., Oxford.

Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, baronet, D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Walsall, South.

Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi, esquire, Hornsey.

Roger Lowrey White, esquire, Gravesend.

Ian Stewart Lloyd, esquire, Portsmouth, Langstone.

John Holbrook Osborn, esquire, Sheffield, Hallam.

Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, esquire, Horncastle.

Captain John Edward Bernard Hill, South Norfolk.

John Gordon Hannam, esquire, Exeter.

Robert James Adley, esquire, Bristol, North-East.

Piers John Shirley Dixon, esquire, Truro.

Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, esquire, King's Lynn.

Robert Adrian Hicks, esquire, Bodmin.

Robert Thomas Boscawen, esquire, commonly called the honourable Robert Thomas Boscawen, Wells.

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, esquire, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., T.D., Abingdon.

Harold Edward Gurden, esquire, Birmingham, Selly Oak.

Captain Henry Briton Kerby, Arundel and Shoreham.

Sir John Edward Gilmour, baronet, D.S.O., T.D., East Fife.

Captain Lawrence Percy Story Orr, South Down.

Henry John Brewis, esquire, Galloway.

Iain MacDonald Sproat, esquire, Aberdeen, South.

Lewis Carter-Jones, esquire, Eccles.

Robert Edward Woof, esquire, Blaydon.

William Fergus Montgomery, esquire, Brierley Hill.

Anthony Fell, esquire, Yarmouth.

Michael Thomas Francis McGuire, esquire, Ince.

Francis Patrick McElhone, esquire, Glasgow, Gorbals.

Sir Ronald Stanley Russell, Wembley, South.

Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts, esquire, Cardiff, North.

David Lambie, esquire, Central Ayrshire.

Charles Andrew Morrison, esquire, commonly called the honourable Charles Andrew Morrison, Devizes.

Tam Dalyell, esquire, West Lothian.

Robert Edward Sheldon, esquire, Ashton-under-Lyne.

Joel Barnett, esquire, Heywood and Royton.

Charles Richard Morris, esquire, Manchester, Openshaw.

Paul Bernard Rose, esquire, Manchester, Blackley.

Sydney Brookes Chapman, esquire, Birmingham, Handsworth.

John Selwyn Gummer, esquire, Lewisham, West.

David Laidlaw Knox, esquire, Leek.

Julian Michael Gordon Critchley, esquire, Aldershot.

Ian Campbell, esquire, West Dunbartonshire.

Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis, esquire, Morecambe and Lonsdale.

Edward Griffiths, esquire, Sheffield, Brightside.

Frank Tomney, esquire, Hammersmith, North.

Peter Emery, esquire, Honiton.

Carol Alfred Johnson, esquire, C.B.E., Lewisham, South.

Joseph Thomas Price, esquire, Westhoughton.

Peter Derek Fry, esquire, Wellingborough.

Sally Oppenheim, Gloucester.

Gerald Bernard Kaufman, esquire, Manchester, Ardwick.

Irving Thomas Stuttaford, esquire, Norwich, South.

Eric Paul Cockeram, esquire, Bebington.

Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, esquire, commonly called the Earl of Dalkeith, Edinburgh, North.

Peggy Edith Fenner, Rochester and Chatham.

Janet Evelyn Fookes, Merton and Morden.

John Alec Biggs-Davison, esquire, Chigwell.

Ronald McMillan Bell, esquire, Q.C., South Buckinghamshire.

John Stradling Thomas, esquire, Monmouth.

Richard Kelley, esquire, Don Valley.

Marcus Lipton, esquire, C.B.E., Lambeth, Brixton.

John Warren Loveridge, esquire, Horn-church.

John Marcus Fox, esquire, Shipley.

Robert Arthur McCrindle, esquire, Billericay.

Kenneth Harry Clarke, esquire, Rushcliffe.

William Mark Hughes, esquire, Durham.

David Martin Scott Steel, esquire, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.

John Gorst, esquire, Hendon, North.

William Michael John Grylls, esquire, Chertsey.

John Emerson Harding Davies, esquire, M.B.E., Knutsford.

Norman Anthony Francis St. John-Stevas, esquire, Chelmsford.

Kenneth Marks, esquire, Manchester, Gorton.

Peter Wynford Innes Rees, esquire, Q.C., Dover.

Right honourable Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, Taunton.

Sir Donald Kaberry, baronet, T.D., Leeds, North-West.

John Harold Vick Sutcliffe, esquire, Middlesbrough, West.

John Edward Maginnis, esquire, Armagh.

James Alexander Kilfedder, esquire, North Down.

James Henry Molyneaux, esquire, Antrim, South.

Eric Petro Deakins, esquire, Waltham-stow, West.

John Dean Spence, esquire, Sheffield, Heeley.

George Wilfred Proudfoot, esquire, Brighouse and Spenborough.

Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, baronet, Kensington, South.

Arthur Paul Dean, esquire, North Somerset.

James Harry Allason, esquire, O.B.E., Hemel Hempstead.

Right honourable Richard William Marsh, Greenwich.

Richard Body, esquire, Holland with Boston.

James Gregor MacKenzie, esquire, Rutherglen.

Julius Silverman, esquire, Birmingham, Aston.

William Henry Edwards, esquire, Merioneth.

Alastair Brian Walden, esquire, Birmingham, All Saints.

David Ian Marquand, esquire, Ashfield.

John Bruce-Gardyne, esquire, South Angus.

John Rhodes Horan, esquire, Gateshead, West.

John Anderson Cunningham, esquire, Whitehaven.

David Reed, esquire, Sedgefield.

Denis Murray Walters, esquire, M.B.E., Westbury.

Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Basset-law.

David William Stennis Stuart Lane, esquire, Cambridge.

Jack Dunnett, esquire, Nottingham Central.

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, esquire, East Aberdeenshire.

Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, esquire, Middleton and Prestwich.

Laurence Reed, esquire, Bolton, East.

Laurence Anstice Pavitt, esquire, Willesden, West.

Wing Commander Sir Eric Edward Bullus, Wembley, North.

Nicholas Paul Scott, esquire, M.B.E., Paddington, South.

Leslie Charles Curran, esquire, Uxbridge.

Harold Walker, esquire, Doncaster.

Richard Laurence Leonard, esquire, Romford.

Alan Michael Clark Hutchison, esquire, Edinburgh, South.

Gordon Alexander Thomas Bagier, esquire, Sunderland, South.

Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, baronet, West Flint.

Arthur John Page, esquire, Harrow, West.

Colonel Sir Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, M.C., Lewes.

4.49 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: Order. I propose to suspend the Sitting and to return later. The Sitting is suspended until half-past Five o'clock.

5.30 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:

Right honourable Sir Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, baronet, T.D., Q.C., East Hertfordshire.

Right honourable Raymond Jones Gunter, Southwark.

Right honourable John Morris, Aberavon.

Walter Ian Percival, esquire, Q.C., Southport.

William John Biffen, esquire, Oswestry.

Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, esquire, Sheffield, Attercliffe.

Albert Edward Cooper, esquire, Ilford, South.

Spencer Le Marchant, esquire, High Peak.

William Jeremy Masefield Shelton, esquire, Wandsworth, Clapham.

Bryant Godman Irvine, esquire, Rye.

Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, esquire, Cities of London and Westminster.

Angus Edmund Upton Maude, esquire, T.D., Stratford.

Right honourable Sir Keith Sinjohn Joseph, baronet, Leeds, North-East.

Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison, esquire, Maldon.

Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger, esquire, Ilford, North.

George Douglas Wallace, esquire, Norwich, North.

Frederick Petre Crowder, esquire, Q.C., Ruislip—Northwood.

George McArthur Lawson, esquire, Motherwell.

Thomas George Bradley, esquire, Leicester, North-East.

William Gibson Clark, esquire, East Surrey.

Thomas Michael Jopling, esquire, Westmorland.

William Marcus John Worsley, esquire, Chelsea.

Albert Edward Oram, esquire, East Ham, South.

Robert George Taylor, esquire, Croydon, North-West.

Alfred William Wiggin, esquire, Weston-super-Mare.

George Burnaby Drayson, esquire, T.D., Skipton.

William David Madel, esquire, South Bedfordshire.

David Russell Johnston, esquire, Inverness.

John Wentworth Pardoe, esquire, North Cornwall.

Michael Mackintosh Foot, esquire, Ebbw Vale.

Walter Harrison, esquire, Wakefield.

John Denis Fraser, esquire, Lambeth, Norwood.

Joan Valerie Hall, Keighley.

Raymond Fletcher, esquire, Ilkeston.

Thomas Henry Swain, esquire, North-East Derbyshire.

David John Denzil Davies, esquire, Llanelly.

Adam Hunter, esquire, Dunfermline Burghs.

Edward Macmillan Taylor, esquire, Glasgow, Cathcart.

Right honourable Reginald Ernest Prentice, East Ham, North.

Martin John McLaren, esquire, Bristol, North-West.

Edward Joseph Fletcher, esquire, Darlington.

Dudley Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, esquire, Belper.

Bernard John Hayhoe, esquire, Heston and Isleworth.

William Edward Garrett, esquire, Walls-end.

Richard Phipps Hornby, esquire, Ton-bridge.

Daniel Edmund Awdry, esquire, T.D., Chippenham.

Sir Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, Nantwich.

Sir Harmar Nicholls, baronet, Peterborough.

Michael Cecil John Barnes, esquire, Brentford and Chiswick.

John Desmond Cronin, esquire, Loughborough.

Edward James Milne, esquire, Blyth.

Reginald Thomas Paget, esquire, Q.C., Northampton.

Ernie David Drummond Money, esquire, Ipswich.

George Grant, esquire, Morpeth.

Nigel John Spearing, esquire, Acton.

John Arbuthnot Ducane Wilkinson, esquire, Bradford, West.

Right honourable Richard Frederick Wood, Bridlington.

6.0 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: I propose to suspend the Sitting until quarter-past Six.

6.15 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Herbert John Harvey Parker, esquire, C.B.E., Dagenham.

William Thomas Williams, esquire, Q.C., Warrington.

William Griffiths, esquire, Manchester, Exchange.

Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, esquire, Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Eric Samuel Heffer, esquire, Liverpool, Walton.

Arthur Charles Latham, esquire, Paddington, North.

Harold Frederick Martin Woodnutt, esquire, Isle of Wight.

Arthur Montague Frank Palmer, esquire, Bristol, Central.

Arthur Davidson, esquire, Accrington.

Robert Alexander Lindsay, esquire, commonly called Lord Balniel, Hertford.

Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, esquire, Central Norfolk.

Sir John Galway Foster, K.C.B., Q.C., Northwich.

Robert Gordon Cooke, esquire, Bristol, West.

Winston Spencer Churchill, esquire, Stretford.

Norman Atkinson, esquire, Tottenham.

Ian MacArthur, esquire, Perth and East Perthshire.

Ian Mikardo, esquire, Poplar.

Thomas Gray Boardman, esquire, M.C., T.D., Leicester, South-West.

6.30 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: Order. The Sitting is suspended till a quarter to Seven.

6.45 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, esquire, commonly called the honourable Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, Glasgow, Hillhead.

Right honourable Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser, M.B.E., Stafford and Stone.

Gerard Folliott Vaughan, esquire, Reading.

James Anthony Stodart, esquire, Edinburgh, West.

Right honourable Frederick William Mulley, Sheffield, Park.

Jeffrey Howard Archer, esquire, Louth.

William Rupert Rees-Davies, esquire, Isle of Thanet.

Robert Chichester-Clarke, esquire, Londonderry.

Eric Ogden, esquire, Liverpool, West Derby.

Frank Julian Allaun, esquire, Salford, East.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tomorrow at Eleven o'clock.—[Mr. Pym.]

Adjourned accordingly at Seven o'clock.